Human Resources committee  With your permission, I am going to let Diane answer because she has more expertise in this area.

Human Resources committee  I would like to add a few words about the foundation. Most of the organizations in the Canadian French-speaking world, particularly in our communities, do not have a charity organization number. They are not entitled to one. This limits us when it comes to doing funding campaign

Human Resources committee  I just have a word of caution when it comes to funding that is transferred to a private investor to lead a large-scale project. Money is already transferred to provinces for education, health and another program whose name I can't remember right now. In fact, we appeared on the t

Human Resources committee  My organization is a spokes-organization for all francophones who live outside Quebec, so it's a federation. Our membership is the spokes-organization in each province and territory and a national organization for culture, health, youth, elders, women's groups, etc., as well, so

Human Resources committee  There are more people, and so proportionately we are less, but that's an entirely other debate on immigration—

Human Resources committee  Yes, it might take more than five minutes, so I won't start. We are are growing in numbers, absolutely, but if you look at it in proportion to the number of anglophones, as a percentage we're not growing because of immigration and the lack of francophone immigration.

Human Resources committee  Is there a cost? Some of our organizations charge membership costs. Of course, if there's a show, a cultural activity, we pay like everybody else, so there is some kind of financing. But whereas you might get 200 people to attend an English show or concert, you might get 50 to at

Human Resources committee  I'm a business owner myself. If I can give an example, and I'm not sure it's an example that's going on right now, but if a program is offered to 500 businesses in the Regina area where I live, in English, and it's the same thing for the francophones, I can tell you there aren't

Human Resources committee  The one-size fits all issue is what the CALDECH case was about, and the court's judgment talked about part IV of the Official Languages Act, which is about service to the public and making sure that the programs are adapted. I'm actually wondering why this hasn't been done before

Human Resources committee  It would depend on each community's specific needs. Even at the broader community level, I couldn't say whether social finance should be applied in the cultural arena or somewhere else, given how different each community is. Obviously, some parts of Ontario and New Brunswick have

Human Resources committee  For the past year, we have been asking Employment and Social Development Canada to undertake the study, given that it coincides with a number of the department's programs. Industry Canada would be another department that could do the study. Another option would be to integrate it

Human Resources committee  The solution best suited to the majority will not necessarily fit our needs, anymore than it will fit the needs of English-speaking communities in Quebec. So that's an important caveat. As for whether the funding model could work, I would say that it probably could. What we are s

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair and members of the committee, I'd like to thank you for inviting the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne, or FCFA, to appear before the committee today. My name is Marie-France Kenny, and joining me is our director of community and government liaison,

Official Languages committee  One of the particular characteristics of Moncton is that it is in an officially bilingual province where a large proportion of entrepreneurs are francophone. That's not the case where I'm from. That makes a very big difference when the employers are already francophone, and we d

Official Languages committee  First, I'd like to say that I live in Saskatchewan—economic boom in Saskatchewan. It's wrong to say that people come here and leave because they don't have a job. There are a lot of jobs there, but there aren't necessarily the tools to let employers know about French and the adv